Syntomoides
Genus of moths
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Syntomoides is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae erected by George Hampson in 1893.[1]
| Syntomoides | |
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| Syntomoides imaon | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
| Tribe: | Syntomini |
| Genus: | Syntomoides Hampson, [1893] |
The genus is often confused with Ceryx, because in 1898 Hampson used the name Ceryx for this moth, but there was already a genus Ceryx named by Hans Daniel Johan Wallengren in 1863.[2]
Species
This is now considered a monotypic genus with the species Syntomoides imaon (Cramer, [1779]): Syntomis godartii (Boisduval, 1829) is one of several synonyms.[3]
